“Demagoguery and the decline of democracy” This is the subtitle of my new book with CUP. But it might just as well be a headline on 5 November 2024 when Donald Trump was voted 47th president of the United States. There is wide consensus that his choice of far-right cronies to his government is a […]
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic, even as it induces great anxiety and fear over people’s health, is at the same time causing disruption to our societies’ economies on a scale that is perhaps unprecedented. In Italy, at least in the period after World War II, no comparable crisis has been experienced before. For anything like the same […]
Read MoreOya Dursun-Özkanca, author of 'Turkey–West Relations," out now, on the recent NATO Summit.
Read MoreGermany votes this weekend in the last in a series of elections in key Western countries. The polls are predicting a win for Angela Merkel, who is trying to secure a historic fourth term as chancellor. In an exclusive extract from her new book, Becoming Madam Chancellor: Angela Merkel and the Berlin Republic, Joyce Marie Mushaben explains why she wrote the book and she looks back at the personal and political factors that have contributed to Chancellor Merkel's hard-earned status as ‘the world's most powerful woman.’
Read MoreOn Monday 5 December 2016, the UK Supreme Court will hear the Government’s appeal from the judgment of the Divisional Court in R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. It is the case of the century on the scope of the foreign affairs treaty prerogative. A unanimous Divisional Court held that […]
Read MoreThe view from Denmark As a Dane, I follow the Brexit discussion with both interest and bewilderment. Denmark entered the European Communities in 1973 together with the United Kingdom and Ireland. For many Danes the fate of Denmark in Europe is therefore naturally linked to that of the UK. Yet, the British EU referendum debate […]
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